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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-05-11, Page 7CLURS., MAX 11, 1933 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Health, Cooking Care of Children PAG INTEREST TD Edited By Lebam Hakeber Kralc Greatest Value e at All Times ,Fresh 'from the Gardens" ivatious nI �iChC�Bb A Coltman Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men THE HOUSEWIFE hey have not fetters; no, her daily tasks the lovingly accepts, fulfilling all, ierving in sweet content the ones she loves. Ind yet, her listening heart must hear the call f every waving bud and feel the awe of deep new -fallen snow; nd know the thrill and ache that comes at sight of naked trees ainst sunset's fading light behind a hill. pen a blossom -laden tree outside her kitchen door red -bird sings; er hands are busy with unfinished tasks; her heart has flown upon those scarlet wings, rad now new thoughts awake, grop- ing for words, eking the light as flowers through the soil, er beauty -loving heart must ever sing, and—like all women ingle dreams with toil. —Isla Paschal Richardson: o Spring is a very busy time with usekeepers. The housecleaning s to be done, gardens have to be ttended to and the winter clothing as to be put away and spring and ummer clothing got out and put in hape while new garments, possibly, lust be provided, especially if there re growing children. I have always felt that it was un- fair that the springtime, after the long winter when no enjoyment can be enjoyed outside, (except by those who take part in outdoor winter sports, and not many housekeepers are in that class) should all have to be used up in doing such hard, un- eongenial work as housecleaning. Gardening is not bad, it is outdoor work and, unless one works too hard at it, can be thoroughly enjoyed, at least by those who like gardening. But housecleaning is something dif- ferent. But it all has to be done and when it is done there is a feeling of small, to give some information as to this destructive Thrip. The first -we heard of it was in the fall of 1931,.but while at our con- vention in February, 1932 a full re- port- of the damage done by this in- sect whenlarge quantities of gladioli flowers were destroyed, was given. In our own town, some two gardens of gladioli bloom were coinpletely ruined. Where this insect carne from, no one knows. 'It is found in most of the United States, Ontario, and Que- bec. It appears to attack the young growth, then the flower • and com- pletely spoils thein, leaving not one bloom. They look as if they had been scalded. The Thrip as so small, that it is hard to see them, They multi- ply about six times in one summer and -in the fall descend to the bulb and deposit their eggs, which hatch as noon as warm enough. It is now proven that the Thrip cannot survive the winter outside—only on the stor- ed bulb can they live. If we do not try the known remedies we may loose our whole crop this coming season. Last year I used whaleoil soap treat- ment and had no loss. Several remedies have been propos- ed for the disposing of this destruc- tive insect. However, Allen G. Dustan, of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, has selected three treatments to destroy this in- sect, as follows: 1st; Nauthalene flakes, one ounce to 100 corns; 2nd, Corrosive sublimate, 1 ounce to six gallons of water; 3rd, hot water water heated to 120 degrees, the bulbs submerged for ten minutes; use the water so as to keep up to the 120. This is a simple, cheap remedy and will kill, not only the adult Thrip, but destroy the eggs also. Plant at once. I would urge all to use this reme- dy, whether you have only a few bulbs or hundreds. You may not have had Thrip before, but you may be swarmed with them this season. Would other papers please copy? Yours truly, -WILLIAM HARTRY great satisfaction in knowing that the house is clean from cellar to garret. • But my sympathies are always with the housekeepers who have to toil and moil at housecleaning on bright spring days, when they would rather seek some wooded dell and listen to birds sing in the sweet spring sunshine. She knows her tasks, however, and the good housemother learns to "mingle her dreams with toil," be- cause it is for her loved ones and the tasks must be done. Of course, the housewife is not the only one whe must exercise her will to stick to her tasks these spring days. Amongst those who also have my sympathy, are the students, big and little, in our schools. What pow- ers of • concentration it takes on the part of a student to stick -to his work during the fresh spring days? The teachers, too, feel the urge of spring and would like to be out iri the open, and no doubt many others in office, factory and store. Indeed, I myself would a great deal rather be digging in the moist earth this morning than tapping out stuff on a typewriter which perhaps nobody reads. But if anyone who has a touch of the gipsy in the blood, (I refuse to believe it is just Spring Fever) should read these lines they will at least lcnow that they are not`olone in the longing for the freedom these May days to seek the great open spaces. —REBEKAII,. Gladioli Thrip The following letter appeared in last week's Expositor and may be of interest and profit to growers of the stately glad: Seaforth, May 3, 1933. The Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: I believe it would be in the interest of all gladioli growers whether they be large growers or lith Scr*ioe Gambian J' I' OF TiIE elirat Aow.wrialirnt and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary MIDDLE LIFE ges should be looked for because it None of us is perfect. We accept, is at that time of lite that they begin • es a matter of course, that, in one to develop. That is why the business way or another, we fall short of per- man's practice of making at"Jeast an fection. It is, however, a matter of annual inventory should be extended importance for us to know in what to include an annual health inventory ways and to what extent our bodies of the business man and his family. are defective. • Health is our most precious posses- Some defects are of but little or ne •sion. If it is worth while to take significance other than from an aes- stock of our financial position, it is thetio point of view. There are, how- much more necessary to take stock ever, other defects or disturabnees of the physical and mental condition which mean •a deviation from the of our bodies. normal, and these may be of grave To accept disease as inevitable and import in their significance. to snake no reasonable effort to ward 'Most of the diseases of middle life it off places'us on a level with prim- ' are insidious in their nature; from itive people who considered disease insignificant beginnings, they slowly as the work of evil spirits. The body - progress to the point where disabling is a complex machine. It requires symptoms are noticed. This applies a . periodic overhauling to keep it to the chronic diseases of middle running smoothly and efficiently, and life, known as the degenerative dis- thus prevent the breakdowns which eases, which are due to changes 'in otherwise will occur. the heart, arteries and kidneys. Age •should not mean incapacity. ' It would be inoat desirable to have Too little attention has been given to 'these diseases .detected early 'so that the needs of adult life. We have ae.- by proper treatment and through 'cepted the health supervision of changes in the habits" of life, parts babies and school children as desir- cularly with regard to diet, the con able; there is every' reason to carry clition might be corrected or checked. this same desirable practice into One purpose of the periodic health Tniddle'and later life. examination is to find out the condi- Questions concerning Health, ad. tion of the•various organs of the body dressed to the Canadian Medical As - /id to detect any changes which may sociation, 184 College Street, Toron• ave occurred. to, will be answered personally by It is in middle life that such char- letter. YOM PAGE 7 Household Economics are .dictated by the permissible lim- its of height and; width. The limits for the Royal Soot are 9 feet 3 in- ches in width and 12 foot 91-2 in- ches in height, as against clearances of 10. feet wide and 15 feet high in Canada and the United States. Bridge,', tunnel and other 8learances on British lines set the physical lim- its which stin have to be observed in locomotive and car design. Tun- nels and other structures of the Livi erpool and Manchester Railway of 1830, the oldest firm in the railway passenger business and now part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, were constructed just large enough to permit the passage of a private coach loaded on to a flat car. Although the locomotives are de- signed on 'smaller scale than are and the United i Canada those used n States, as are passenger and freight cars, they have developed high re- cords for sustained speed, the 6100, the Royal Scot, having developed 88.8 miles per hour between London and Ooventry, while hauling a train of over 300 tons. • OIL FROM LIMES Limes, grown in the British West Indies, yield not only lime -juice, but also an oil, the production of which has increased 50 per cent in the past year. Limes compete with lemons as a cooking ingredient and also as a beverage ingredient. A FLOWER CALENDAR The well balanced flower garden has something in -bloom practically all the time from early June until frost. This is possible where even the purchase is limited to a few packets, as the following list which gives the approximate blooming sea- son indicates: Pansy --All summer from plants, August -September from seed in open. Alyssum—June until snow. Portulaca—Jute until frost. *Aster—July until September. Balsam—July until September. Can'dytuft—July until September. *Cosmos—riuly until frost. *Marigold—July until frost. Mignonette—duly until frost. •Nasturtium—July until frost, Phlox—:July until frost. Poppy—July 'until frost. Latics rur A — ugustu until frost. 1 Scarlet Runner—July-August. Sweet Pea—IJuly until frost, Calendula—July until snow. oZiOna—jilly Until frost. *Snapdragon—:July until snow. Helichrysum August -September (if flowers dried will keep indefin- itely.) *Petunia—AugustrSeptember. ( Pinks -August until frost. "'Stock—August mint frost. Dahlia—August-September. Salvia—September-October, #`Varieties thus marked should be started indoors for earliest blooming. If sown in the open flowers com- mence about three weeks later. POEM CHANGES FATE OF FOET How many are aware of the fact that indirectly the island of Jamaica, in the British West Indies, was re- sponsible for the celebrated Scottish poet, Robert Burns, achieving fame? Yet such is the case. When "Bobbie" was courting Jean Armour, he, with his brother, operat- ed a farm but he could never make any money. Jean's father was a master mason and frowned on iris daughter marrying the impecunious "Bobbie." In depair, Burns decided to abandon his suit, got rid of thn farm and go to the island of. Jamaica and take a job as a book-keeper on a slave estate. In order to defray the expense of his trip to Jamaica he decided to publish some poems he had written. A line at the end of one of the verses reads "Will 'ye go to the Indies, my Mary?" The poems were published and Burns immediately broke into fame, result- ing in his giving up the idea of go- ing to Jamaica but instead he went to Ednburgh, Scotland. ' FAMOUS BRITISH TRAIN SEEN IN CANADA Residents of Canadian cities re- cently had the opportunity of in- specting the locomotive and coaches of the famous Royal Scot express, when this train made its first jour- ney through Canada en route from Montreal to Chicago. The Royal Scot reached Montreal about the end of April and was as- sembled there to .operate under her own power to Chicago. Westwart' the train travelled over the lines of the Canadian. Pacific Railway, visit- ing several Canadian cities, and, af- ter being exhibited at the "World's' Fair, Chicago, will return through Canada on the lines of the Canadian National System, malting stops; for public inspection purposes at var- ious towns and cities. The domparatively iiodest dimen• sions of British engines and cars THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay; Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins piring• SIGNALS TO MARS Although I, wig -wag; shout or chant, I get no message to the ant, Who minds' his business as he goes Eight; ih4iielle4 from my prying nose. I lived for years beside a cat; What conversation came of that? And dates of floods and glacial ages Don't interest our canine sages . n t avoid me lie d Beetles and flies that do Have always more or less annoyed me To fling a salutory word At some far planet ,seems absurd. —+Olive Ward, in New York Times. HIDDEN DREAMS The I%and of the Keeper of Dreams Holds all life's happiness: Or ever the sunlight gleams, Or cares and burdens press, One Hand bears the golden light Up the path to heart's desire, Thro' sunlight, of darkest night Always glows the fire. Tho' the hard and steep hillside Be strewn with rocks and thorn, By the turn there's a fireside And a glorious Easter morn. Sunlight warms the hills, Music sweeps the streams, And we find a pierced Hand Guarding our land of Dreams. Pearl MacKenzie Kennedy, Car- alstone," Galt. CLOTHING FOR A CRUISING HOLIDAY For a cruising holiday, the first and last consideration is to take as little clothing as possible, say those who are experienced in West Indies tours. In support of this advice, the story is told of a famous traveller whose rude is to patio his clothes in three trunks or travelling bags. The first contains what be is sure to need every day; the second what he may need two or three times a week; the third what lie thinks he may need sometime during the trip, Then, leaving behind numbers two .and three, lie sets off on his tour re- joicing. However, the following are recomemnded, an umbrella and a bathing suit. • The umbrella, it ap- pears, has uses in any climate. KITTENS ARE GIVEN DISTINGUISHED NAMES Love of animals and a fondness for pets seem to characterize rail- waymen all the world over, so it is perhaps not unusual that when the room of the pet cat of the baggage Canadian National Railways at Windsor, Ontario, became the proud mother of kittens,the head porter should -want" to christen" them, This he did, but not until he had consulted "naming books" in French and English, finally arriving *at Et- oilo, Marguerite and Archibald: Shortened or nicknames are not fav- ored in this particular baggage room, for the kittens' mother rejoices in the full name of "Elizabeth." REVALUATION OF GOLD Millions of dollars in additional rev- enue will be added to the gold mines of Canada and for that matter to mines in every part of the world in the event that revaluation, widely ad- vocated by British and -American statesmen, becomes an accomplished fact, as it in all likelihood will. Recent conversations between Pres- indent Roosevelt .and Premier Ben- nett at Washinbton were devoted mainly to a consideration of mone- tary rather than trade matters, Mr, Bennett taking the position that re- valuation of gold was a primary and essential step • toward world trade readjustment, his attitude finding a sympathetic reaction in the Presid- ent of the United States. NOT DISPUTED First Attorney—Your honor, unfor- tunately I am opposed by an unmit- igated scoundrel! 'Second Attorney—My learned friend is such a notoroious liar—" Judge (Sharply)•—'i`he counsel will kindly confinetheir remarks to such matters as are in dispute. Cx=Elf::=5 SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN In all our lives there's sorrow In all our lives there's rain. But we must have the cloudy clays, For the sunshine domes again. In all our lives there's sorrow And very often pain, But peace will come tomorrow, Like sunshine after rain. Sometimes we cannot understand The sorrow and the pain, But some day in a better land God's sun will shine again. Time heals the deepest sorrow And always eases pain; 'Tis like the blessed sunshine That God sends after rain. —Elizabeth Fletcher. Guelph Ont. They built in the meadows and In the barn and• croft They carried the word of love Afar, aloft; They were colored like flower, Every wing Was pointed and balanced and strong, A marvellous thing. "Darlings" God said to the birds, now to another place.Go Men cease to wonder at last At any grace. Leave for a while and then, After barren days, One robin shall make their hearts Awake to praise." So all the singing birds Lifted their wings to go-; They found a path in the blue High way they know. Only the chikadee •stayed To sing in the snow. —Louise Driscoll. tree, C�Cs<-o THE CAGE Take any bird, and put it in a cage, And do all thyn entente, and thy corage To fostre it entirely with mete and drinks, Of alle deyntces that thou canst be- thinke, And lcepe it al so clenly as thou may; Al -though his cage of gold be never SO gay, Yet hath this bird, by twenty thou- sand fold, Lever in forest, that is rude and gold, Gon ete wormes and swich wretch- ednesse. For ever this bird wol doon his bus- inesse. To escape out o -his cage, if he may:: His liberty this bird desireth ay. —:Geoffrey Chaucer, "Poems." SPRING RED As beautiful to me as the scarlet of autumn Is the redness of a certain maple in the springtime. I watch its newborn buds Opening out into wide crimson leaves of perfect shapeliness; I rejoice as the boughs shake their realized loveliness in the sun- light. Looming big in my veiw of the garden, The trees seems to promise red as the corning color of the summer; Against its robust crimson The lacy green of a silver maple has the look of a promise forgotten. Yet the vividly crimson tree Does not taunt its neighbors for their tame greenness; Nor does it start a color -resolution in the springtime; It acts as if unconscious sof its dif- ference from the others: It seems content to be red quietly. --:Lyon Sharman.. BIRDS , "Darlings," •God said ot the birds, "Go now and sing, For men are weary of Winter, Go and bring Promise to empty branches." He set them free, Winged to carry His praise Joyously. DAWN All night I watched awake for morn- ing; At last the East grew all aflame; The birds for welcoming sang—or warning— And with their singing morning came. Out fishin'; His livery's a coat of tan; His creed; To do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man, Out fishin'; Along the golden -green heavens drift- ed Pale, wandering souls that shun the light, Whose cloudy pinions, torn and rifted, Had beat the bars of "leaven all • njghU. These clustered round the moon, but higher 9 troup of shining spirits went, Wilo were not made of wind or fire, But some divine dream -element. They sang, and as a nighty river Their voices washed the night away From East to West ran ono slight shiver, And waxen strong their songs was Day. —A. M. F. Robinson, WAITING Serene, I fold niy hands and wait Nor care for wind, nor tide nor sea I rave n0 More 'gainst time or fate, For lol my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Cil TEE SPRING WIND WAKES The Spring wind wanes, and, lazily, in the grass She stretches slow' her. limbs. A quivering mass Of tall green blades alone portrays the place Where she is hidden, in her sylvan grace. Then, suddenly the spring wind laughs with. glee, And, springing up, she flits away, to be Caught in some high tree -top. Then o'er the lake's White -crested wave,her fleeting W df g wa y she takes. Now in some mountain -fastness, snug, she bides, And, in among the rocky crags, she hides; Until at dawn, she ruffles, soft, the flowers 8nd wakes them all, to share the happy hours With her. Then, suddenly, she is not there, We search, but cannot find her, any- where, Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What natter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years, My heart shall reap where it hath sown, And garner up its fruits of tears. The waters know their own and draw The brook that springs in yonder hights. So flows the good with equalual law Unto the soul of pure delights. The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. —John Burroughs. oaf OUT FISHING A fellow isn't mean Out fishin'; His thoughts are mostly clean Out fishin'; Ho doesn't knock his fellow -men, Or harbour any grudges then; A fellow's at his finest, when Out fishin'; The rich aro comrades to the poor, Out fishin'; Ali brothers of a common lure, Out fishin'; The urchin with the pin an' string Can chum with millionaire and king, And happy as a lark, they sing, • Out fishin'; A feller's glad to have a friend, Out fishin'; A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin'; The brotherhood of rod an' line An' sky and stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design Out fishin'; IA fellow isn't plottin'. schemes . Out fishin'; af'I'WIWHe's only busy with his dreams, —$Ilyttle Corcoran Watts. SPRINGTIME Real spring has come, not shifty windy rain, But violets growing down a quiet lane Not sudden gusts of cold from off the sea, But quivering wings in every bud - sling tree. Real spring, with days like jewels set apart, And all its age-old hunger in your heart An aching need for sum against your face, • And all the old sweet freedom of the race. Real spring with wide brown fur- rows wet and bare, A new young greenness showing ev- erywhere, New lambs and colts in pastures warm and clean, Old orchard trees with daisies in be- tween. A mother -hen at shining dusk of day, Finds a warm corner up against the hay, And makes of her own body safe and crude A kindly shelter for her tiny brood, Wide fields of wheat whose petals, one by one, Push small green fingers- up to find the sun, Whose roots lie deep below the fur- rowed plain, Seeking their substance from the sun and rain. Real spring, with all the fragrant lovely earth, Pulsing with gracious life and joy and birth, A quickening in the hidden heart of things. Across the starry dark, the beat of wings. By Edna Jacques in the National Home Monthly. GODERICH: The 34th annual re- port of the Goderieh Elevator and Transit Company, Limited, made public recently, reveals net profits for the year ending March 31, 1933, ,of $34,272.20. Total reven- ue was $141,374.97, and total ex- penses, $70,842.94. TIie sum of $36,- 259,83 36;269,83 was allowed for depreciation and amortization of leases. Divi- dends paid during the year amounted to $60,403.60. The surplus account shows that $104,977.07 is carried ov- er. In his report to shareholders President G. L. Parsons comments on the slightly decreased volume of business handled in the year just closed, owing to restricted sales of flour by Central Ontario millers, and of feed grain for farmers, this de- pleting the amount of domestic grain required through this port. While the volume of business was less, strict 'economies were exercised in plant operation and administration, and these all but offset the decreased earings. An optimistic note is sounded by the president in the ma- terial reduction in lake and rail export rates, effective this month, from lake and bay ports to Montreal, and a slight reduction in the milling in transit rates to Ontario mills, to- gether with the anticipated benefit from the preferential arrangement effected with Great Britain as also in view of the exceeding low carry-over of grain now at the head of the lake and beyond. A substantial increase in traffic receipts is anticipated. The annual meeting will be held on May 10 at Goderieh. SOMMINIONEIMIONIIMMIRMPTS ever Di Advertising are L' I'eh a ry to Teli as T gay